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The other thing we have to understand when it relates to transportation, is that the real estate market is specifically adapted and responsive to the transportation network created. It's an outgrowth. Change the transportation network, you get a different physical form. Genotype, phenotype.

Build a transportation network centered on freeways, you get a spread out, low density real estate market with a columnist living 24-miles from work, realizing there just might be something interesting off the freeway, but damn if it isn't inconvenient. Duh.

For our next trick, we're going to put a polar bear on the streets of downtown Dallas. I bet it will find something interesting to feed upon in the dumpsters, but damn if it's fur isn't inconvenient for all this heat.

Indeed, we don't magically become less dependent upon freeways overnight. As long as we have them.

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"The American love affair with the car...it's an awful lot like Stockholm Syndrome." ~ Me.In the Sixties the philosopher Ivan Illich showed that the amount of energy invested into cars and road infrastructure would be sufficient to cover the distance by foot - and in a considerably more beautiful and peaceful environment.

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In the Sixties, the philosopher Ivan Illich showedthat the amount of energy invested into cars and road infrastructure would be sufficient to cover the distance by foot - and in a considerably more beautiful and peaceful environment.